Welcome to the Online Archive of the Old PublicEye.Org Website

Please remember that this is an archive of an older website for researchers, and it is not being updated. Therefore, much of the material here is not current.
Much like any library archive, it is "out-of-date." Brick and mortar libraries do not toss out older resource materials, they archive them. That is what we have done here.

Political Research Associates was founded by Jean V. Hardisty, Ph.D., a political scientist with a Ph.D. from Northwestern University and seven years' teaching experience. Dr. Hardisty founded PRA (formerly Midwest Research) in 1981 in Chicago. She has been an activist for social justice issues for over 25 years and is a well-known speaker and widely published author, especially on women’s rights and civil rights. In 1999 her book, Mobilizing Resentment, Conservative Resurgence from the John Birch Society to the Promise Keepers, was published by Beacon Press. She currently serves on the boards of the Sister Fund, the Highlander Center, and the Women's Community Cancer Project and is the education consultant to the Ms. Foundation Democracy Funding Circle. She continues to remain involved in assisting the work of PRA.